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Plague Years

Video scripts and original writings by one of Canada's most prodigious filmmakers. With more than forty challenging, sometimes brilliant, films to his name, Mike Hoolboom is Canada's most important filmmaker since Michael Snow. He's won the Toronto International Film Festival prize for Best Canadian Short Film twice in three years. Rendered on celluloid or on paper, Mike Hoolboom's daring artistic vision just might be the most compelling of his generation… Plague Years is a reminder of that wonderfully uncomplicated pleasure of remembering what it felt like to discover movies for the first time." (Peter Goddard, Toronto Star). “A compendium surveying nearly forty film scripts, essays and microstories by renowned filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, Plague Years impressively represents his summa to date. In spite of his frequent use of "I," it is not, strictly speaking, an autobiography. There remains a strong fictive element throughout - his artistic license, naturally. Hoolboom's mellifluous prose ranges from the script for his imageless film White Museum to a revealing letter to Madonna to the poignant anti-AIDS Letters from Home . His themes shift from the light and filmic to the sombre and

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